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“Imagine if you will…” is how Rod Serling introduced each surreal episode of the popular Twilight Zone TV series years ago. It seems a good way to frame the recent data dump on the Jackson City Council by JXN Water’s “CEO” Judge.
The data were detailed compilations of the problems, mismanagement, customer abuses, and costs the CEO Judge and his Water Czar Chief Operating Officer have observed during their three year tenures — but have not fixed. The dump was the Judge’s way of saying: “No Mas. I’ve had enough. I’m giving the ball to the City Council.”
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11 hours 41 minutes ago
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Capitol Police Lieutenant Jeremy Gordon explained to LOHO residents how the Capitol Police can serve residents.
, Pearlean Campbell, Mayor Horhn's director of constituent services, promised to return all calls. Her non emergency number is 601-960-2324. Her cell is 601-540-0332. You can also dial 311.
Residents of Jackson’s LOHO neighborhood association gathered for their annual meeting, featuring remarks from Capitol Police Lieutenant Jeremy Gordon, constituent services director Pearlean Campbell of Mayor John Horhn’s administration, and LOHO Neighborhood Association President David Munn.
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12 hours 10 minutes ago
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Euclid Avenue in the Belhaven district is one of many streets the commission has allocated funding for repavement.
The One Percent Sales Tax Commission obligated funding last fall and earlier this year for repaving more neighborhood streets in Jackson.
None of the work has started, however, because the city of Jackson has not taken the steps it must do so paving can begin.
The city’s public works department is responsible for putting together the necessary documents that outline the work so the project can be put out for bid. Next, the bid has to be awarded to a contractor, and the city council must approve the contract.
By Nell Luter Floyd - Sun Staff Writer on
13 hours 10 minutes ago
Happy Easter. In the gardening world that means a lot. We have always used Easter as the magic date to make your next move in the garden. This year Easter is unusually early so we can only hope that the old wives’ tale will hold true. I don’t remember a year in my life that we had a frost after Easter. I may be forgetting one, but it has always astounded me that somehow Mother Nature knows to call it quits on all this funny business after Easter.
By Allen Martinson - Gardening Columnist on
15 hours 10 minutes ago
Members of Jackson Prep’s 2026 eighth grade baseball team include (from left, back) Pierce Malone, Triton Bryant, Brady Sinclair, Cameron Queen, Ethan Watson, Hudson Herring, Robert Riles, Van McNinch; (front) Jude Pepper, Pate Aldridge, Brennan Travis, James Ritchie, Henry McPhillips, Jack Williams, Paxton Lowe, and Jackson Blocker.
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Students raising the fundraising barometer to $19 million following an additional $1M gift include (from left) Eilah Lucas, Mia Qi, Tate Wyrick, and Justin Gaddis
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School recently received a $1 million gift in support of Phase I of its Making the Way campaign to construct a new Lower School on the school’s south campus in Jackson. With this latest gift, the school has now raised more than $19 million toward its $21 million Phase I goal, marking a milestone and bringing the project close to the finish line.
School leaders say the momentum highlights a shared commitment to strengthening educational opportunities while investing in the future of Jackson.
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Friends and family gathered at The Dandelion event space at Martinson's Garden Works for a baby shower honoring Meredith Goings Burnett. Guests wrote notes to the mother-to-be and predicted what they thought the gender of the baby will be. They arranged flowers into an assortment of small glassware for the attendees to take home. Some of the guests included (from left) Allie Kate Kihm, Addie Bagot, Addison Sharp, Caley Watts, Caroline Walker, Meredith, Suzanne Wilson, Elizabeth McKee and Blythe Cooper.
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The Eudora Welty Foundation, in partnership with the Millsaps College Visiting Writers Series, will present the 2026 Bettye Jolly Lecture April
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Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Capital Area kicked off their 40th anniversary year by celebrating its donors, volunteers and homeowners with an appreciation luncheon at First Baptist Church of Jackson.
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Road infrastructure work is being completed on at least seven streets in northeast Jackson LOHO neighborhood over the last few months.
The City of Jackson is funding the work through the 1% sales tax, state and federal money, according to Jackson Mayor John Hohrn, who said he has identified $150 million to improve Jackson streets.
Infrastructure committee member Pete Perry said additional streets in Belhaven, Fondren and other northeast Jackson neighborhoods were scheduled for repaving.
By John Emmerich - Reporter on
1 day 6 hours ago
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Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Capital Area kicked off their 40th anniversary year by celebrating its donors, volunteers and homeowners with an appreciation luncheon at First Baptist Church of Jackson.
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1 day 8 hours ago
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Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Capital Area kicked off their 40th anniversary year by celebrating its donors, volunteers and homeowners with an appreciation luncheon at First Baptist Church of Jackson.
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Albert Einstein wrote on May 23, 1946 that “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking...”
One can say the same of the torching of Temple Beth Israel, three months ago, on January 10, 2026.
Memories are short. People’s minds move to other stories in the course of 24 hour news cycles at their peril.
By Jay Wiener on
1 day 8 hours ago
Albert Einstein wrote on May 23, 1946 that “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking...”
One can say the same of the torching of Temple Beth Israel, three months ago, on January 10, 2026.
Memories are short. People’s minds move to other stories in the course of 24 hour news cycles at their peril.
By Jay Wiener on
1 day 8 hours ago
What does the holy-warrior culture Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is cultivating in our military have in common with the holy-militant culture Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers cultivated in his White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan?
I fell into this question after reading Hegseth’s latest militant prayer and then about the trove of Klan artifacts uncovered at the Mississippi Department of Public Safety as it prepared to relocate. Among the items recovered were a Klan charter and a March 1, 1964, Bowers lecture. (See all items at Jackson Jambalaya.)
By Bill Crawford on
1 day 8 hours ago
What does the holy-warrior culture Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is cultivating in our military have in common with the holy-militant culture Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers cultivated in his White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan?
I fell into this question after reading Hegseth’s latest militant prayer and then about the trove of Klan artifacts uncovered at the Mississippi Department of Public Safety as it prepared to relocate. Among the items recovered were a Klan charter and a March 1, 1964, Bowers lecture. (See all items at Jackson Jambalaya.)
By Bill Crawford on
1 day 8 hours ago
Why is a multistory photo of Donald John Trump hanging from the rafters of the Justice Department? The Founder John Adams wrote in the months before the Declaration of Independence ours was to be a nation “of laws, and not of men” (Letter of John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 1776).
By Robert Wise on
1 day 8 hours ago
Why is a multistory photo of Donald John Trump hanging from the rafters of the Justice Department? The Founder John Adams wrote in the months before the Declaration of Independence ours was to be a nation “of laws, and not of men” (Letter of John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 1776).
By Robert Wise on
1 day 8 hours ago
Blessed Holy Week. This is the week in which the Christian world remembers the ultimate sacrifice: when Jesus gave up all he had, endured more suffering than any of us could ever imagine, and sacrificed his very life in order to save us from our sins. Before offering himself up as the final sacrifice, Jesus taught his disciples many things, including how to pray. In what has become known as “The Lord’s Prayer” or the “Our Father,” Jesus includes the petition, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” (Matthew 6:12).
By Johnathan Kettler on
1 day 8 hours ago
Blessed Holy Week. This is the week in which the Christian world remembers the ultimate sacrifice: when Jesus gave up all he had, endured more suffering than any of us could ever imagine, and sacrificed his very life in order to save us from our sins. Before offering himself up as the final sacrifice, Jesus taught his disciples many things, including how to pray. In what has become known as “The Lord’s Prayer” or the “Our Father,” Jesus includes the petition, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” (Matthew 6:12).
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